Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Richard Knutsson
2005-12-04T15:20:22Z

Matthias Andree wrote:

>As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear
>a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved."
>
>
In the 2.6.15-rc5 kernel we find:
data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "All
rights reserved" | wc -l
932
[data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n
"Copyright" | wc -l
15083

But I do wonder how copyright and GPL can co-exist. Do the copyright
holder own the changes anybody else does to the code?
Anyone care to explain?

Thanks
Richard Knutsson